Stefan Dinter

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Stefan Dinter at the Hausacher Leselenz 2015

Stefan Dinter (* 1965 in Singen am Hohentwiel ) is a German illustrator and comic artist . He lives and works in Stuttgart .

Education and creation

Dinter grew up as the eldest son of a family doctor in Gaienhofen on Lake Constance . He published his first comics in the school newspaper of the Ambrosius Blarer Gymnasium there himself from 1979, his first out-of-school publication was in the PLOP fanzine . In 1982 he started the comic fanzine Sex Terry with his brothers, Matthias Dinter and Jan Dinter, and the brothers Dirk and Jens Abmeyer , which appeared in nine issues and mainly printed science fiction funnies. Working on this fanzine made contact with Christian Heesch , who later founded the Zwerchfell Verlag . Many of Dinter's comics have been published by this publisher. From stylistic role models such as Jack Kirby , Frank Margerin and the Captain Future draftsmen Takuo Noda and Toshio Mori, Dinter has developed a very own, clear line.

While studying communication design (focus on illustration) at the Merz Akademie , Stuttgart (1989–1993), Dinter spent an internship at the US comic publisher Fantagraphics . Here he worked, among other things, as art director for the sub-publisher Eros Comix and the magazine Amazing Heroes, as well as assistant editor for Monster Comics. He graduated in 1993 with a two-volume thesis on the development of the American underground comix. Since then he has been working as an illustrator and cartoonist in Stuttgart .

Dinter often works as a team on his comics, especially with his brothers. The three of them designed the Sigurd parody Bolf - Akim Asylum , the Tarzan - Spoof Knurf - Hero of the Green Hell and their greatest success to date, Die Kleine Mutterficker (5 volumes), all for the Hamburg publisher Zwerchfell Verlag . For the Stuttgart-based Dino Entertainment , the same team (plus Kim Schmidt ) created the TV adaptation A Home for Aliens in 1998 . With his brother Jan, he oversaw the weekly motherfucker spin-off strip Hangin 'Out from 2001 , which was published in the youth magazine YAM! was reprinted. With Isabel Kreitz and Eckart Breitschuh , Dinter created the comic series Mabuse from 2000 to 2002 , a continuation of the novel series by Norbert Jacques at Carlsen Verlag . From 2004 to 2007, together with Holger Bommer , Christopher Tauber and Jan Dinter, he designed the weekly adventure comic Elli Scout for the youth website Junge Szene of the Stuttgarter Zeitung . In 2008, the comic adaptation of the youth novel Katie Cat was published by Egmont Ehapa in collaboration with Naomi Fearn . As a letterer, Dinter has been working with Thomas Groß since 1998 for Carlsen Verlag and Ehapa Verlag .

Dinter has worked as an editor for Zwerchfell Verlag since 2000 and looks after the series Zuckerfisch by Naomi Fearn , Disco Amore by Christopher Tauber and Krigstein by Haimo Kinzler .

Other Projects

After various comic workshops in youth art schools, Dinter became the workshop manager in the comic department at the Literaturhaus Stuttgart in 2005 . The first two workshops in this constellation took place on the one hand at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, accompanying the exhibition Funny Cuts, and on the other hand in Czernowitz at the Bukowina Center. Since then, Dinter has been involved in the Teaching in Dialogue project of the Stuttgart Literature House and teaches comics in German lessons at Stuttgart schools. One result of this work is his book Comics Make School (2007), which shows ways of communicating comics in school lessons.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.splashcomics.de/php/aktuelles/news/24734/30_jahre_plop

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SURNAME Dinter, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Singing at the Hohentwiel